Rihanna’s French Tattoo Grammar Faux Pas

frenchtribune.com ^ | August 16 2010 | Anatole Kassovitz

[Berlin_Freeper]

Rihanna, who is a Barbadian-American singer, recently had inked her neck with a French tattoo, however, the bad news is, that the grammar has gone haywire.

The 'Rude Boy' superstar-singer flaunted her new tattoo, which read 'Rebelle Fleur', in New York.

But, a few of her admirers pointed out that a French translation of 'rebellious flower' would have to be in the other order.

[Berlin_Freeper]

[South Hawthorne]

As if the tattoo in her ear and on her neck hadn't already settled the question of if she's an idiot.

[Domandred]

Ah yea the joys of getting a tattoo written in a foreign language that you don’t actually understand so you can’t verify if it’s correct.

Also the mark of an idiot.

[alecqss]

Pardon her French...

[WOBBLY BOB]

at least with 'moron' branded on them,we can avoid them.

[RinaseaofDs]

Never interfere with idiots in the act of self-identification. A thank you note, however, is not required either.

[Brett66]

It could be worse, I was expecting her tatoo to translate “rancid fart”.

[ladyvet]

LOL! When my oldest son was stationed in Okinawa he got a Japanese character tattoo. I asked him how did he know that it didn't say “ I suck “ or something worse. He was not amused.

[goseminoles]

Juge me...

LOL!!! I’m not against tattoos(don’t have any myself), but at least do a little research and get the spelling correct..

[BigEdLB]

Now she can get signed to do a laser tatoo removal ad...

In French, of course

[ConservaTexan]

ipday itshay

[dfwgator]

It’s like those French have a different word for everything.

[PrincessB]

This kind of reminds me of Chad Ochocinco.

[a fool in paradise]

[La Lydia]

Un faisceau des idiots ...

[La Lydia]

Un faisceau des idiots ...

[absolootezer0]

tattoo freeper ping!

[Retired Greyhound]

FAIL

[IrishCatholic]

Post of the Day!

I love that!

[a fool in paradise]

[WOBBLY BOB]

mine is this (and even spelled correctly!)

[So Cal Rocket]

[Opinionated Blowhard]

And yet I’m sure some reporter will make it a front page story when this dope starts braying about how the Republicans and the Tea Party hate black people.

[Sgt_Schultze]

[txlurker]

Excellent!

[Yo-Yo]

Barbadian-American

Haven't we taken this hyphen-American thing a bit far?

[Carpe Cerevisi]

Bleu Sacre!

[caddie]

tetes-Richards

[B-Chan]

“Salope stupide”

[La Enchiladita]

Maroon Quel

[The Great RJ]

I am beginning to think the movie “Idiocracy” may be prophetic.

[philled]

Her new tattoo makes her look both togh and sensative!

[Fletcher J]

I was told by a Chinese co-worker that many of the Chinese character tattoos are jokes that say “I’m Stupid”, etc., which she says is a much harsher insult in China... heh

Also, she says her mother saw someone with the Chinese characters for “Twice Cooked Pork”. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but pretty funny.

The tattoo artists can get pranked, if they ask a Chinese person to write the characters for them to copy, and that person has an evil sense of humor. :)

Fletcher J

[Mr Rogers]

“DORK” would only have required 4 letters, saving her money...and “?” would have allowed fans to wonder if she was clueless, or questioning.

[WhirlwindAttack]

LOL! When my oldest son was stationed in Okinawa he got a Japanese character tattoo. I asked him how did he know that it didn't say “ I suck “ or something worse. He was not amused.

I met a girl who had a Kanji tattoo on her lower back. She said it was "Beautiful Goddess" My Japanese kendo partner told her it was really "Fat Pig Sow". She now sports a huge black tribal tramp stamp cover up.

We still make pig noises when we see her. LOL

[dfwgator]

And now apparently she is dating Eminem. Fail, part two.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Anybody else see the report a few years ago where a study determined that about half of all foreign language ( Chinese, Hebrew, etc. ) tattoos were either insults, misspelled, gibberish, or backwards? The backwards ones came from people scanning, copying, or photographing what they thought looked cool for a tattoo and the original was “mirrored” at some point in the process.

[Pilsner]

I was told by a Chinese co-worker that many of the Chinese character tattoos are jokes

Some years ago, when Mayor of San Antonio, Henry Cisneros went on a tax payer funded junket, err, business development trip, to Japan. Several members of the San Antonio news media went along.

One TV reporter had the foresight to have business cards printed in Japanese. Unfortunately, he had the Japanese translation provided by the wife of a fellow station employee. After the Reporter came back from Japan, the lady informed him that the business cards he had handed out all over Japan described his occupation as "sumo wrestler."

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Liked her in this.

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/digital-short-shy-ronnie/1182201/

[dfwgator]

I think she’s got a lot of talent, make no mistake. I certainly like her more than Lady Gaga.

[WOBBLY BOB]

How Fluent Is Your 'Chinglish'?

[ut1992]

When did she become an American citizen? She was born in Barbados and as far as I know (according to Wikipedia) neither of her parents are/were American citizens.

[Fletcher J]

LOL... That’s a good one.

Speaking of business cards, way back during the “dot com” days, there was an executive with EarthLink who’s official title on his business cards was “Head of Lettuce”. No lie, that’s what he wanted. I can’t remember what his function actually was.

I have a lot of good stories from there, since that was an interesting place to work... The call center staff were especially interesting. heh